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In this week’s newsletter: Why has the social network been in total chaos since the world’s richest man took control? Flipping the Bird investigates. Plus: five of the best podcasts about planet Earth

The mean old autocrat might be a stabilizing force.

Will the tech sector survive its financial crisis? Why is Greece spying on Meta? What’s next for cloud regulation? Will anyone ban TikTok? What are chips, anyway? Are cat videos weakening Ukraine’s military?

What are the best novels set in London of all time? Londonist readers have picked the best novels from Dickens to Ackroyd to Rutherford to Aaronovitch

Settle down in a comfy chair and sit back with some of the week’s best longreads.

The gas-supply crisis is merely the most conspicuous sign of the complacency and drift besetting Europe’s largest economy. Germany’s national business model needs an overhaul.

If something’s going to render massive swaths of our planet uninhabitable, the least it could do is inspire some entertaining fiction.

In Canada, a preview of how a future American regime is going to attack dissidents

From PG Wodehouse’s ‘peerless’ Anatole to John Lanchester’s merciless Tarquin Winot, a novelist chooses her favourite kitchen creations

The apocalyptic parody film about a comet heading for Earth has polarized opinion and triggered a global debate on our failure to act on the climate emergency.